_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________IT APPEARS DOMAINS NAME BEING SOLD TO COMMERCIAL COMPANIES WHILE DOMAINS WERE USG PROPERTY (c) Carrie Devorah :_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ICANN WAS SET UP AS A NON PROFIT DIRECTED NOT TO TAKE IN MORE MONEY THAT IT NEEDED (c) Carrie Devorah :___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

As a Not for profit, ICANN was directed to take in no more than it needed to cover its costs.ICANN's non profit returns acknowledges over $400,000 dollars in 2013.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________9/ /2016 ICANN SAYS IT IS TAKING AWAY FROM AMERICA,JUST BEFORE THE ELECTION…………(c) Carrie Devorah:__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Vint Cerf the “inventor” of the Internet announced that IANA is being taken from America September 2016. This is not a joke. One hopes it is not a prophecy, a 9/11 of the financial global internet kind. Vint Cerf also said that Vice President Al Gore was made Senator to make the Internet happen. Vint Cerf’s internet is out of control. Identities are masked on the “open” internet. Online crime is exploding. Wall Street flash crashes frequently. Terrorism, racism and theft look like they are happening from one person when they are instigated from elsewhere. The website people said was the South Carolina shooters appears to come from Russia. The fake Bloomberg.market website appears to come from Poland. The domain of a website showing a video of the burned alive Jordanian bomber burned alive surrounded by pornography appears like it belongs to the Toronto Yacht Club. ICANN’s CEO Fadi Chehade testified to Congress ICANN is successfully policing the Internet. ICANN, the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers controls IANA, the Internet of Assigned Numbers Authority. ICANN, was ordered set up, 10/1998, as a non-profit by President Bill Clinton yet a lot of people are making money from domain names- the web hosts, the registries, the servers, the Internet groups. Vint Cerf predicts ICANN will be making trillions of dollars. ICANN IRS Form 990’s show a claimed revenue increase from $72,019,349 in 2012 to $236,182,149 in 2013. ICANN CEO Fadi Chedahe told ICANN volunteers at a the CSIS meeting in DC that he was setting up overseas banking in Hong Kong to overcome money difficulties.The Internet is a complicated yet profitable business to run. A lot of people are making a lot of money. The internet was developed by the American military Department of Defense for Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA. The Department of Commerce has been renewing ICANN’s contract to oversee IANA, since 1998.Several companies had bid on the contract. The business structure of the Internet is complex. ICANN, with oversight of Domain Name System, DNS, tracks and regulates domain names and addresses. Domain names end in what is called a TLD, Top Level Domain. The TLD’s until a few years ago were .gov, .org, .net., .int, .mil, .com, .edu and .arpa. Jon Postel, the manager and developer of IANA, first addressed country TLDs, in 1994, two years after the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, had controlled the country code TLD, .af, since 1992. .af is the country code for Afghanistan. A few years ago, ICANN began rolling out thousands of TLD’s. ICANN had oversight over the registries and the TLD and domain name marketers.Domain name disputes are forced to be settled by arbitration as the people Hillaryclinton.com, donaldtrump.com, Georgesorosfundmanagement.com, Nichole Richie, Nicole Kidman learned.October 1998, ICANN President Clinton authorized ICANN into existence as a private non-profit, 6 years later. Clinton’s Oval Office aide Ira Maizinger still is involved with ICANN. Maizinger works at the Clinton Health Initiative. Clinton authorized developing the masking technology, TOR. The Onion Router, TOR, was used at the State Department under Hillary Clinton. TOR is used by groups wanting anonymity like Anonymous and Silk Road. TOR makes it look like one person is responsible for something that someone else did. That other person can be thousands of miles away. The ISP of the ‘inciter’ is taken for bad use without the person knowing. Postel knew IANA and its servers was insecure. Postel hacked 10 of the 12 servers in 1998. Postel was , unexpectedly, dead a few weeks later. The person who read “Postel’s’ testimony to Congress supporting ICANN emerging.ICANN wants control of to be taken from America to Geneva. ICANN will be put under United Nations oversight, along with the ITU, international telecommunications unit and WIPO, World Internet Property organization. The ITU is the world’s oldest union, formed in the 1800’s.Custom TLD’s ending in words like .dog, .porn and .sucks can be strung together like beads .taylor.swift.sucks.dog.porn. Two letter TLDs like .ly, can be added to the e for example, “taylorswift.ly or .taylor.swift.ly.sucks.dog.porn. Taytlor Swift and other celebs bought TLD’s like .sucks and .xxx to protect their brand. Taylor Swift does not have all the money needed to protect her brand. Abuse of Trademarks, Brands, Privacy continues to grow. There are thousands of TLD’ choices being released to choose from combinations available each day. Back in 1994, Jon Postel the “father of IANA” sent a memo stating, “It is extremely unlikely that any other TLDs will be created.”There is supposed to be transparency in the Internet. Some people pay companies to act like service of process centers for them hiding true identities of hackers who hacked Sony, or the federal hacks. TLD’s like .forex give the false impression of legitimacy to a website. This is scary with all businesses and people forced to go on line and under United Nations oversight. IANA leaving America’s control timed to before the elections will implode this Country.

It’s the market that is ignored, the super store that is every nook & cranny of the world. It is the Wall Street without regulators. It is the housing crisis that is coming. It is the derivatives debacle all over again. It is the deceptive marketing that is largely understood by regulators like the FCC and the FTC. Even if they did ‘get it’, understand the world of domains, there is not much the regulators can do. Congress wrote laws that allows criminals to walk free to con again, slapped, maybe with sanctions and/or being barred for a window of time.

﻿It is the blowout of domain endings, the TLDs, top level domains, those words website owners select to make their websites memorable or even unforgettable. ﻿

This closeted industry was paid for by Taxpayers money.

A handful of former government employees have been fighting for 20 years to remove this government military technology in to the private sector and out of America to Geneva where this little engine that could change the world further, will be. It will be under the oversight of the United Nations, not very good at that.ICANN is flooded with complaints of Domain abuse including but not limited to fake companies using OPB, other People's Brands; identity theft, diverting sites clients, etc. Litigations must be adressed by WIPO. WIPO, is the World Intellectual Property Organization. Did you know WIPO is located in Geneva?

Did you know that WIPO is a United Nations entity? You do know. When people like Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Donald Trump, Nicole Richie and others wanted to stop their name being used without license and with a TLD, (.com, .org, . net) the complaints must be sent to Geneva where cases are argued by mail by one arbitrator or a panel of three, not in the USA.

Congress approved that snarl for people attempting to stop this privacy abuse.As is, hell is loosening global economies even more as ICANN, the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers, continues to release thousands more IANA “unique identifiers.” IANA is the Internet Assigned NUMBERS Authority. Yes, numbers. That is what a domain name is, afterall. Numbers. The program that was developed and overseen by the late Jon Postel converted words into numbers allowing domain names to be sought and connected to on the Internet. Postel passed, unexpectedly, suddenly. The government order Postel tried to block became law, about two weeks later.ICANN was born from Newco. A closet industry was kept under the Department of Commerce. Few knew about it even to this day other than vested parties.Rules IANA and ICANN were to follow were not. Trademarks and brands were stolen by “squatters” seeking to profit off of others investment of work. Website creators were led to believe they owned domain names. No. Rented not owned. TLDs like .org and.net were “rented” to people and entities that were not .org, organizations, or .net, networks, by people wanting to block others from feeding off their name searchability for “hits.”Hover writes that buying someone else’s trademark is bad faith without adressing there may be complicitness is selling someone’s trademark, as starters.ICANN broke rules of its contract. Now, ICANN is putting domain names on sale. .Co can be ‘bought’ at a discount, ½ price off.ICANN is taking to charging tax on premium names too. Question is did Congress ever do diligence on the Department of Commerce issuing renewals to ICANN’s 20 year contract to assure that contract was put out to competitive bid. Did Congress ever do a forensic accounting of ICANN’s billables and financial statements. If not why not? Moreso, the profits ICANN is bringing in by the buckets, increasing from $70mil to 1/2Billion in a few years should go to the Veterans Affairs, and other beleaguered agencies, after all, taxpayers money paid for IANA and, for the record, Google, too.

Not even Taylor Swift has enough money in the world to protect her name. The Tech offensive starlet's team bought .sucks and .XXX and .porn to protect her brand. Look below, Taylor's team. Then Square that number to see the infinite combinations of those brand abuses. Nothing other to say than, "That sucks." It does. Unless the facts are understood and outcry is raised to get past talking points to calls to action. The US Government fed facts and tasks to Standford University where Google was born. Yup, Google is government. Now you get Google glass, electric cars plus. that (1) the world is the science lab petrie dish and (2) if IANA leaves America, a 9/11 worse than can be imagined will hit. ﻿

So, who really is behind an unsigned rant attributed to Darryl Flood. We wont know. How did his website come connected to a Russian Registrar, registered through ICANN's IANA rather than through one of the five registeries overseeing the America's. We won't know. Was it Russia, really, as Ms. Clinton has warned about..... in DC, lessons are learned..... opinions masked as insight can be given like playing charades.... do you need another clue maybe....

This is the question that must be asked of ICANN. Congress has this opportunity. Fadi Chehade comes to Congress to politic. Chehade is the ICANN CEO called to the witness table while ICANN's Steve Crocker's sits in the seats in peripheral view, for guidance of Chehade with a slight twist of Fadi's head.

Fadi has testified before Congress that ICANN could not be hacked. Then ICANN was hacked. Fadi has testified that Congress had no worries over ICANN falling into abuse by Russia or China if Congress agreed to let IANA move to Switzerland under the UN umbrella along with WIPO and other UN one world organizations.

ICANN, the alleged nonprofit has been rolling in profits hand over fist since it exploded GTLD profits from around $70,000,000 to near over 1/2 a billion, in America, that is. This 1/2 billion does not include profits that ICANN is holding I. Hong Kong and possible other places.

Along with the ICANN rollout of controversial GTLDs like .sucks and .xxx, have come exploding increase if online crimes. The International Securities Commissions warns on its website about abuses from the likes of .forex! .payday and more.

Identity of the site administrator is protected by the Tech Organization Privacy Protection Service, Inc, doing business as Privacyprotect.org.

The connection of Roof to Russia in unclear. lastrhodesian.com is not registered to Dylan Roof is clear. This site may have had photos of him on it. The connection of Roof’s site to Russia is very clear. There are more questions to ask, the right questions with pictures leading the Congressional story. The screengrabs start this ball rolling.

It is more more like a .com Domain Bubble about to burst as ICANN is coordinating, during its LA Conference, the role out of .dot everything even .(script) everythings. New York City is hustling .nyc . Soon Shultz's .ebola.com will be competing for sale against .ebola, .ebola.au. With the plan ICANN is rolling out at its Los Angeles, Ebola will be everywhere in the GTLD world. Schultz's (dot) disease domain will be eradicated. If only eradicating Ebola was that simple.ICANN recently rolled out, for sale, a slate of ICANN domains that ICANN told the DC Court Judge have no value. ICANN’s affiliate contract says different. Registrars are required by ICANN to keep in force “commercial general liability insurance with policy limits of at least US $500,000”. Other ‘short leashes’ include not being able to sell ICANN’s Accredited Registrar logo or from otherwise representing itself as accredited by ICANN,” or ICANN having the right to terminate Agreements, not the US Government ICANN told the DC Courts is accountable. Why termination? Reasons given include material misrepresentation, material accuracy, misleading statement, 5.3, Termination of Agreement by ICANN, 5.3.1 or 5.3.3, “Any officer or director of Registrar is convicted of a felony or of a misdemeanor related to financial activities or is judged by a court to have committed fraud or breach of fiduciary duty or is the subject of a judicial determination that ICANN deems as substantive…” (https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/agreements-2012-02-25-en.) Where does Iraq, Iran or even .ru come in to play here?Hold tight…. Hover offers almost 400 domains through ICANN. Asterisked domains come with an FYI. The FYI says “* Some TLD’s require an 18 cent ICANN fee added before checkout.” Some of the 18 cent ICANN fee taxes include .church, .wtf (yup), .press, .aero, .ac, .accountants, .wtf sells for $22.60, .xxx sells for $65.86, .aero sells for $78.81, .ac sells for $79.99, .accountants sells for $69.98. Marked “SALE” are .club, .me, .co and .info. .org and .com are selling cheap, $10.99 but are not on sale. .uk and .us are selling pretty much bottom of the barrel for $9.99. So much for America leading the world. There are different costs for “transfer in”, “registration”, and “renewal.” Some of the costs from “transfer in” to “renewal” are incremental.The pricey TLDs provide a picture of where our world’s head is at. .coop sells for $199.81, .creditcard sells for $103.97, .investments sells for $69.98, .io sells for $79.99, .loans sells for $69.98, luxury comes at a cost of $414.00, .press sells for $68.95, .sh sells for $79.99. Travel? .travel goes for $88.81.Tragic isn’t it when .us and .uk, allies in commerce are sunk low, so low. Wonder now how ICANN is going to explain, again, to the DC Judge how domains have no value. I cant wait to hear Fadi Chehade, ICANN’s CEO, explaining to Legislators where all the TLD money is going to. Now, mind you, this almost 400 TLD list is just what Hover posted for clients and potential clients to peruse. Multiply the almost 400+ TLD’s times all the other TLD’s ICANN, the ‘non-profit’ is hustling around the world, America’s debt worries would be over. All the immigrants from here to eternally could be paid for, billions, and then some. This is what the US people are being robbed of.A little bit of housekeeping first. Some crackerjack forensic boy lawyer not working for Congress or ICANN will have to go ICANN’s contracts issued in 2000 and then in 2006. Something in the 2000 contract said the US government has to approve all fees, changes and yada, yada. This will be fun, IRS.A small, hiccup ICANN. Respecting ICANN’s intent to move IANA to Brussels or wherever, as long as IANA is in the USA, there is something about ‘separation of Church and State...’ Selling .church may be verboten. Something to think about… oh, yeah, and ‘.blackfriday.com’ America already had the Redskin issue. Probably not a good GTLD to sell, moving forward. Somehow, guess is Congress is going to redline a lot of the GTLD’s IANA, America’s company has been approving under the wire. Hey. What can you do? Congress cant be everywhere. That said, Congress does cut deals in good faith with unsuspected Bad Actors.Congressional Research Service issued a White Paper October 28, 2009, “Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues.” Lennard G Kruger, a specialist in Science and Technology Policy called ICANN a “public benefit corporation” (Page 3). Kruger wrote in “ICANN Basics” that Internet explosion “led to a marked growth of the ICANN budget, from revenues of about $6 million and a staff of 14 in 2000, to revenues of $60 million and a staff of 110 in 2009.” Kruger wrote, “ICANN (not the Federal Government) is funded primarily through fees paid to ICANN by registrars and registry operators.” Kruger continues “In 2009, ICANN is receiving 92% of its total revenues from registry and registrar fees (41% from registry fees, 51% from registrar fees.)” (http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/97-868.pdf)ICANN provides domain names under which lewdness is promoted on line, hatred and racism are incited, torture and beheadings are broadcast globally, theft of personal property such as ARTS Content is disseminated globally unable to be tracked because ICANN’s cohort sets up firewalls, of sorts, blocking search results to track for example naked photos of Hollywood celebrities deciding to shoot Home Porn. ICANN claims the US Government contract gives ICANN clean hands in business dealings with IRAN and possibly, other entities US law forbids business dealings with, suggesting the US Government is guilty of these crimes ICANN is refusing to produce documents on pursuant to the DC Court’s order.Oh what a tangled World Wide Web is weaved when one is attempting to deceive.Nobel Prize laureate, economist Douglass North said these chilling words while accepting his prize, "If the institutional framework rewards piracy, then piratical organizations will come into existence; and if the institutional framework rewards productive activities, then organizations – firms – will come into existence to engage in productive activities."U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Griesa in New York ruled that Grooveshark, the streaming music service based in Florida based company and its co-founders infringed nine record labels' copyrights, intentionally, UMG Recording, Inc. v. Escape Media Group, Inc.(http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-grooveshark-loses-copyright-infringement-20140930-story.html) But Grooveshark did not do its crime alone. Grooveshark had help from others in committing this Intentional crime. Grooveshark has “conspirators.” Grooveshark would not have been found online, responsive to Searches, without Google and other search engines,. Grooveshark’s co-founders would not have had their online Alias, their Domain name “grooveshark.com”, without ICANN. ICANN says without its US Government contract there would be no ICANN which means according to ICANNN’s explanation that the US Government has gone in to the business of selling “.wtf”. The US Government responsible for ICANN that is selling .xxx (porn) and ‘what the f_ck’, according to ICANN’s DC Court pleadings? Really?ICANN is a week out from its Los Angeles Conference. There are galas in each city ICANN hosts its “governance” conference. There will be no gala in LA. Speculating? The difference between LA and London and Istanbul and…? Legislators proximity to attend. And the IRS. Legislators may show up, would question ICANN’s gala opulence. And at the same time ICANN is accountable for global theft online of IP, and global incitement of hate, increasing beheadings, etc. Without identifiable domain names, the Internet would be a mess of numbers. Without domains, Bad Actors would have fewer places to ie show beheadings to diners. As for the IRS? Love ‘em, America’s pitbulls.With all the privacy issues tearing at Google at this time, one would think legislators would connect the dots on Do-Not-Let-IANA go out of America. There are far too many questions besides, European Governments are challenging Google and other Internet Providers with Privacycrimes. ICANN wont cooperate with court orders in America. ICANN is playing a dangerous game. ICANN is orchestrating world confusion.

ICANN is pushing liability up the food chain at the US Government, ICANN alleges it works for. There is a contract between the US Federal Government and ICANN. Contracts have clauses, performance clauses, operational obligations. ICANN’s contract with the US Government was first signed in 2000, (https://www.icann.org/resources/unthemed-pages/iana-contract-2000-02-09-en) Without domain names then Internet would be a W, W, W world of ISP numbers. Names make numbers warm and fuzzy. The internet of names with the like “kike.com”, “Cunt.com”, “F**.com”, “nigger.com” albeit “nigger.com”, are facilitated through ICANN. ICANN sets up domain names each daily. “nigger.com” approved by an ICANN Registrar was bought by the NAACP. A lot of domain-ers did the same, even buying .org, .net, to protect brands or to prevent abuse. With the rollout of almost 400 new GTLD’s, and more to come, soon after Dan Snyder’s “Redskins” brouha, not even the NAACP has that much money in its world. ICANN does. ICANN is making money. GTLD’s cost $185,000 the $25,000 to own.Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, back at the March 2014 ICANN hearing in the House Judiciary, announced she would fly to an ICANN meeting nearby, on ‘her plane.’ Question to ask is was Zoe invited to attend ICANN’s conference in Century City, October 12-17. ICANN didn’t do the greatest of jobs getting word out to Legislators. In fact, on home turf, ICANN isn’t putting on the glitzy gala ICANN toasted with in London. Most likely, to avoid legislators seeing how taxpayers monies are spent. ICANN is safe. Legislators rely on staff to do diligence when it comes to research. In a world of beheadings, stolen naked celeb pics sold around the world and ebola, ICANN is low on the totem pole, almost as low as FINRA, equally unknown. Youtube videos and photos of ICANN’s galas past are plastered everywhere. It is the IOT, after all.Any wonder of anti-american animus after this meeting is exacerbated by ICANN itself, its minion, Keiran McCarthy, leading off the rumor from ICANN’s blog stating the US government is letting ICANN go. Really, ICANN? Misleading global governments is no way to build trust in with the government ICANN is trying to pry IANA away from.A lot of money is at stake. Billions. Things are getting hotter, for ICANN that is.ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, with “stewardship” of ICANN is pushing to “steward” IANA out of American control. IANA, a cash cow, a billion dollar cash cow, was funded with American taxpaying dollars. US government contracted with former NTIA employees in 2000, Steve Crocker and a few cronies with a tad of a tall tale being told. Vint Cerf, one of the ICANN cronies, claims he built the Internet. Vint Cerf did not build the web. Sir Tim Berners-Lee did. ICANN was incorporated, 1998. Berners-Lee warns the US government against letting IANA go to ICANN. Congress needs to call to testify Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who proposed created a global hypertext document system so researchers could put information online where their colleagues could find the info, at will, any hour, any day. The year was 1989. Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google, is the current chairman of the American Registry for Internet Numbers and former chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Vint Cerf worked at NTIA, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.Jon Postel created a ‘phone book’ for domains. One column has the ‘phone’ number. The other column has the corresponding name. Jon Postel, then at USC, worked out this ‘phone book’ of ISPs and names idea. Life was simpler then. 5 GLTDs. Things changed. The Internet is getting nastier. ICANN is explained simply.People create websites with domain names that insult, host stolen property, show of body parts doing things in position one would maintain should be private. Beheadings, bestiality and Walmart shoppers backside couldn’t be aired over the Internet without ICANN domains. Website and blogs with pictures of the exposed naked selfies shot by Rhinna, Kim Kardashian, Anna Kenrick, Jennifer Lawrence are on sites with their domain named managed by ICANN. Payment is taken in Bitcoins. Bitcoins are a currency that don’t exist, physically, that is. Persons robbed of Bitcoins are, oh well, screwed. Stolen Content sold on other than owner’s websites, or Etsy shops, need ICANN domain names to do so. Oh yeah, the State Department funded it, TOR Project, that is (https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en) ICANN decides what names may stay up and which should come done. Hatred and abuse and theft online can be stopped. Litigation in America will decrease. And, likely, some people would go to jail. ICANN must obey its court orders.ICANN is refusing to turn information to Shurat Hadin Law Center, on Iran’s top-level domains and Syria and North Korea domains to terror victims over to a DC Court, ICANN Court Filings, Case 1:01-cv-01655-RMU, Document 106-1, filed July 29, 2014. Darshan-Leitner, Israel’s arguing for the victims, wrote “ICANN could “pull the plug” on Iran’s Internet, suspending use of the .ir domain and disconnecting Iranian IP addresses from the web.”Jones Day, attorneys for ICANN argue “ccTLDS are not property subject to attachment…. Not “owned” by the countries to which they are assigned… relevant ccTLDS are not within the District of Columbia or even in the United States” and that ICANN “does not have the unilateral power or authority to re-delegate the ccTLDS and doing so would interfere with contractual relationships” and that “forced re-delegation of these ccTLDS would destroy the value of the ccTLDS, the rights of the domain name holders and jeopardize the manner in which the Internet operates.”Law firm Jones Day states ICANN has a contract with the US, albeit badly written with few protections for IANA’s ‘investors’, the American people, crowdfunding the Feds program. (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/sf_26_pg_1-2-final_award_and_sacs.pdf)Darshan-Leitner said, “Iran pays fees to ICANN to license its Internet assets. The US District Court ruled that those fees, along with the assets themselves, could be used to satisfy the Iranian debt to the terror victims plaintiffs. Included in the judgment are all the “top-level domain” (TLD) names provided by ICANN to Iran, including the .IR TLD, the Persian-language ایران TLD, and all Internet Protocol (IP) addresses being utilized by the Iranian government and its agencies.” (http://www.israellawcenter.org/page.asp?id=&show=photo&pn=1494&ref=report)IANA was to transfer to a private company. ICANN is a non profit. Confirming if the US Government intended “non profit” when the Government contracted with ICANN, a fine point to argue. It is a point still, at that. ICANN’s exposure for Asset collection is minimal. ICAAN’s LA offices are rented. ICANN own’s new headquarters in Brussels. There is talk of office space in Singapore, other places too (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/333f62d2-f159-11e3-9fb0-00144feabdc0.html)ICANN is exposed. It is predictable that the families of the beheaded journalists and aides workers will sue ICANN, too. Cerf and Crocker are at risk for being sued personally for the beheading of the Americans and Brits being shown through a Domain Name approved by ICANN. Multi-stakeholders and shareholders and lawyers around the world will learn that being a volunteer does not exempt one from liability. Being a board member comes with accountability.ICANN claims publicly it is about transparency. Cerf and Crocker are not transparent. Names of participants are not posted on Listserv’s line or shared between stake-holders. ICANN 51 Los Angeles attendee list provides an opt-out option for those attendees wanting anonymity. ICANN’s is threatening to lock up data for ICANN WHOIS.com participants. WHOIS.comis a resource for Process servers, journalists, investigators and persons wanting to serve take-down notices on Intellectual Property thieves. Get a very clear picture of ICANN, arguing both sides of the fence depending upon wh and IANA? Think of the online rash of beheadings of Americans and Brits, if not the actual photos, the head being shown mid neck slit or after being lopped off with bodies falling to the ground, the decapitated head in hand. These would not be able to be shown by a hate group if someone or some group was not able to buy a domain name.ICANN argued in a DC Court, the Internet is on loan from the US government with only the US Government having authority to provide that sought information. The Darshana-Leitner Law Center may have standing to sue the US government, even bringing it to the Hague on War Crimes for allowing ISIS to exist online and for allowing That may be all American legislators needed to hear to cancel IANA’s transition out of America. Or in the least, to review ICANN’s contract with the US government. Maybe even cancel it. ICANN has 13 root servers. 10 are subject to US law. Attorney Dr. Behrooz Akhlaghi reflects Congressman Tom Marino’s concern that “ICANN will be replaced by an as yet unestablished international group.” Theresa Swinehart, Senior Advisor to the President on Strategy, said, “NTIA announced on March 14 2014 that they are planning to relinquish their stewardship of the IANA functions to the multi-stakeholder community…”. That is not true, yet, if ever. NTIA has to go through Congress first. Legislators isn’t buying Fadi Chehade’s testimony, either. Neither are other government officials around the world. What Congress needs is a Global Congressional Conference call with all parties come together at the same time at a theater near you. Call Comcast. Call Seacrest. Call Andy Cohen. Call Simon Cowell. Berners-Lee says ICANN should not be privatized.Berners-Lee should know. The QueenCongress has a contract with ICANN that needs a fine tooth combing. Like calling upon Judiciary witnesses staffers did not bring in, reasons unknown. Congress, call Sir Tim Berners-Lee to be a Judiciary witness. Have Darshan-Leitner tell their story of ICANN in the DC Court. Call the man who beat ICANN in the California Supreme Court. If they are still alive, call Jon Postel’s mom and siblings to appear and testify to get the rest of the story of Jon Postel’s mysterious death soon after showing his NTIA colleagues the Internet is not safe and secure and is the Greatest Highway Robbery of all time about to happen, during a time of exponential online data and Identity hackings, “ISIS” jostling for online viewer attention too. ICANN is a California non-profit with State and Federal oversight. One can only hope that a local State Senator might glance towards downtown LA at America’s Hub Office, 12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536, Phone: +1 310 301 5800, Fax: +1 310 823 8649, before ICANN books it out of America, as being wiggled to. Hey. For whatever it is worth, there is the LA ICANN conference coming up October 12 - 16. Free to people. Legislators? Some may have favors to sell.... please dont.

And China’s Beijing, Phone: +86 10 6535 0376, Email: queries.beijingec@icann.org.At a day and time when the news is filled with stories of Chinese hackers, really, ICANN, really? No address? Also, engagement office as in weddings-r-us?

Hey Britain, America’s got talent. We call it Congress. C’mon, Legislators, lets rock-n-roll and make ICANN dance out of the IANA business..….

Postel was showing the US Government they could not take control of the Internet away from the researchers that built it. Postel’s colleagues official word was Jon’s action was a “test” to “Show the Internet’s directory infrastructure could be repositioned as needed.” Others said Postel was “making a statement” to “show the White House that it couldn’t wrest control of the Internet from the widespread community of researchers who had built and maintained the network over the previous three decades.”Timing? The White House was about to disclose it’s reorganization plan for governance of the Internet’s directory system. The year was 1998. The President in 1998? William Jefferson Clinton. Bill. The conference at George Washington University’s Elliot School of Business was 2014, a week ago. Postel was Edward Snowden before Snowden was in the Guardian paper’s eye. ﻿

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NETMUNDIAL HAS PERMISSION TO POST THIS COMMENT. THIS COMMENT MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED, POSTED TO OTHER SITES, MARKETED AS A PDF FOR SALE OR OTHERWISE UNLESS IT IS UNDER LICENSE ANY AND ALL OTHER ENTITIES SEEKING TO REPRINT THIS COMMENT MAY DO SO ONLY WITH WRITTEN PERMISSION The agenda for Netmundial is buried deep down into their Principles. Cut to the chase, NEtmundials is another front in the attack on Copyrights & Identity ownership. While NETmundial “talks” about Multistakeholders, those impacted, further by the Internet are not mentioned once- the little people who lives and livings are decimated by the Internet Of Everything- theft of Identity and Intellectual Property online- the entities, the multistakeholders stealing what belongs to Legislators constituents- Silicon Valley’s, San Francisco’s brightest and best. Pew research reports increasing online thefts. Cutting to the chase, I wanted to know who are these “masked men” called Stakeholders stealing people’s identity and intellectual Property? The answer is simple. It took some reading. The answer to moving IANA out of US territory and possession is NO, a thousand times no.The Multistakeholders include ITU the International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies(http://www.itu.int/en/Pages/default.aspx); ICANN; ISOC (http://www.internetsociety.org/); IETF the Internet Engineering Task Force (http://www.ietf.org/); IEEE (http://www.ieee.org/index.html); IGF Internet Governance Forum ( http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/); W3C world wide web consortium (http://www.w3.org/); APNIC (http://www.apnic.net); APRICOT Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies; KISA (http://www.nida.or.kr/kisa/eng/english_ver.html); IAJapan Internet Association Japan (http://www.iajapan.org/); Electronic Network Consortium (http://www.enc.or.jp/eindex.html); IIA Internet Industry Association (http://iia.net.au/); CERT Software Enginneering Institute (http://www.cert.org/); SPAMHOUSE Spam removal (http://www.spamhaus.org/); IPv6 Forum The New Internet (http://www.ipv6forum.com/ Vincent Cerf Honorary Chairman); APIRA Asia Pacific Internet Research Alliance (http://www.apira.org/); GWC (http://en.gwc.net/); IAB (http://www.iab.org/); IETF (http://www.ietf.org/); W3 (http://www.w3.org/); 5 RIRS (http://www.nro.net/) . A few weeks ago, US Legislators held a hearing on moving IANA away from America. There were no answers as to Judicial oversite. There was no mention of 1Net.org. And when Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren wondered if Vincent Cerf knew about the push to move IANA by 2015. Not one witness at the hearing table said, ‘not only is Cerf on board, he is truly On board, one of the guys high up, way high up.’ Ask one or two witnesses at a hearing a logical question, too often, a 3rd party jumps in changing the topic abruptly or is at the witnesses shoulder within seconds, excusing their need to pull the witness “now.” One doesn’t think too hard seeing, yet again, lobbyists or persons with Non Profit money to burn behind them. Experts Witnesses are placed by parties with vested interest. This people are offered as having Expert Knowledge. Expert Knowledge is not a good thing to gift to often professors in the Internet world especially are the little guy on the streets that will never get called as a witness if they aren’t famous or didn’t lose a child. Losing livelihoods and ability to pay bills, isn’t sexy enough a theme. Yet that is who is being ravaged by this Internet of Everything, owners of Copyrights, Intellectual Property and Identities, stolen, shared and Algorithmed across the Internet. A nice farmer in Wisconsin is being sold as a commodity in France. This comment in fact will be picked up and sold as a PDF, without license or permission, in countries like Germany and Japan, signators on the Berne Convention. Watching a Hearing can be pain filled. Legislators, mostly, millennial staff, feed the legislators questions to ask. Quoted? New York Times, Washington Post? What ever happened to citing person’s in history or the little man on the street. Legislators are expected to then rule on issues that change lives. A famous response in American legislative history is former Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi saying, “you have to read it to find out what’s in it.” That Legislation continues to be written, still. The shift of the IANA out from under the Department of Commerce to the EU is beginning to feel a lot like that moment in American history. Sometimes Legislators just aren’t getting close to asking the right question. Sometimes they ask the right question, they just don’t know that are not being given the right answer. Like who are the Multistakeholders and what weren’t Legislators being told before Legislators are pushed to vote, were two questions needing to be answered, moreso in the blush of State Department’s disruptive Tweets, and in light of State Department’s supporting entity’s like TOR. The Answers the Legislators sought were available. Not in that hearing. They are on the 1Net.org website, a name not mentioned during the Hearing or in submitted testimony, like (i) what about security of IANA if moved out of America oversight, (ii) where would be the legal forum for American’s to resolve disputes within, and other questions able to be heard on the Library Of Congress Audio recording of the Hearing that day. 1Net.org clarified a question Legislators asked ICANN’s CEO testifying to convince the US Legislators to released oversight of ICANN from the US Department Of Commerce during the Hearing, “Hearing: Should the Department of Commerce Relinquish Direct Oversight Over ICANN?” chaired by Congressman Tom Marino. Head on the video to 1:53:16+ of Congressman’s questioning of a witness. (http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/2014/4/hearing-should-the-dept-of-commerce-relinquish-direct-oversight-over-icann) (http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/hearings?ID=027833A0-0028-42E2-A14B-B9C8BA2576A6 ) The answer to Congressman Marino’s (R ) and Congressman Jefferies’ (D) question of what do Legislators’ tell their constituents, the answer is here, “Due to the open communication nature of the Internet, 1Net.org cannot represent, warrant or guarantee that communications stored on 1Net.org servers will be free from unauthorized access by third parties, loss, misuse or alterations. While 1Net.org will take reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of personal information received, 1NET.ORG DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS OR USE OR COMPROMISE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. USERS ARE ADVISED THAT THEY SUBMIT SUCH PERSONAL INFORMATION AT THEIR OWN RISK.” The Secretary of Commerce’s words were misleading. There is no security. There is no protection. There are no guarantees. What takes place on the Internet, as example shows, time and again, is not secure, wont ever be, as long as there is SPAM online, breaches, hacks and Facebook User Message Box’s being overwhelmed with Girls Selling, well, Girls. What tips the Agenda of NETMundial are the words to enable “environment for innovation and creativity” the “ability to innovate and create hamust continue to allow permissionless innovation through an enabling Internet environment.” Permissionless- as in Orphan Works, Collective Licensing, Decimating local ability to be self sustaining and maintaining local infrastructures for towns and by its people.? 1Net.org also states its “Standards must be consistent with human rights and allow development and innovation.” Isn’t a Human Right the ability to own their ARTS, protect their copyrights, and not have their identity stolen, Algorithmed or Human Trafficked. The 1Net.org site states; “(4) … This transition should be conducted thoughtfully with a focus on maintaining the security and stability of the Internet, empowering the principle of equal participation among all stakeholder groups and striving towards a completed transition by September 2015.” (5) It is expected that the process of globalization of ICANN speeds up leading to a truly international and global organization serving the public interest with an independent status and clear accountability mechanisms that satisfy requirements from both internal stakeholders and the global community. The active representation from all stakeholders in the ICANN structure from all regions is a key issue in the process of a successful globalization.” The 1Net.org site continued, and this is where global Legislators must listen, “III. Issues dealing with specific Internet Governance topics of Security and stability” I read to say even they don’t have answers to Security and Stability; 1(c ) While there is “room for new forums and initiatives…experience accumulated by several of them demonstrates that, in order to be effective, any cybersecurity initiative depends on cooperation among different stakeholders, and it cannot be achieved via a single organization or structure.” (2) says at a time North Korea challenges South Korea, Israel is being threated by its neighbors and Russia just invaded Crimea, “Internet surveillance – Mass and arbitrary surveillance undermines trust in the Internet and trust in the Internet governance ecosystem. Surveillance of communications, their interception, and the collection of personal data, including mass surveillance, interception and collection should be conducted in accordance with states’ obligations under international human rights law. More dialogue is needed on this topic at the international level using forums like IGF and the Human Rights Council aiming to develop a common understanding on all the related aspects. NETmundial admits there are “several contributions to NETmundial identified points that need further discussion and better understanding” the exact questions Congressmen Marino and Jeffries were seeking answers for during the April 10th Judiciary hearing, that “Different roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in the Internet governance ecosystem, including the meaning and application of equal footing (i)Jurisdiction issues and how they relate to Internet governance (ii) A principle based code of conduct and related indicators for the Internet governance ecosystem. The 1Net.org “Way Forward” portion of their site says “It is expected that the NETmundial findings and outcomes will feed into other processes and forums, such as WSIS+10, IGF, and all Internet governance discussions held in different organizations and bodies at all levels.” Further, “All the organizations, forums and processes of the Internet governance ecosystem are encouraged to take into account the outcomes of NETmundial.” Who are WSIS+10, IGF, 1Net.org? Stakeholders, too? Confirmation of identities is needed before moving forwards. The stakeholders impacting Netmundial, must be named, along with the identities, of individuals not just organizations, supported by the “High-Level Multistakeholder Committee”, composed of ministerial representatives of 12 countries (Argentina, Brazil, France, Ghana, Germany, India, Indonesia, South Africa, South Korea, Tunisia, Turkey and United States of America) plus 12 members of the multistakeholder international community.” Who are they? Global legislators are entitled to know exactly who “This Committee” is, name by name, photo by photo, including name by name, photo by photo of “representatives of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)) and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations, and representation of the European Commission.” A Legislator at the US Congress House Judiciary Committee asked this question, of the CEO of the non-profit ICANN, when testifying before the Committee, predictive as the question was, ‘you are here today Fadi if we make this agreement with you. But tomorrow, when you are gone, if we offshore IANA out of America, what protections do we have when you are gone and the politics of “High-Level Multistakeholder Committee” change? Then what. What protections are in place?” Protections start with Common Sense, which is not very common, it seems in the world of the Internet of Everything and Corporate and non-profit greed. Common sense says get a 100% handbook created provided to Legislators around the world, making this same decision of transferring global citizens lives Internet of Everything to Unknowns. 100% disclosure of photos, bios, background checks be provided to the international community along with their organizational handbooks, operational procedures or NO. Not gonna happen. The same criteria applies to exposing photos, bios, background checks and identities of the “Executive Multistakeholder Committee.” The “Executive Multistakeholder Committee” is responsible for the “agenda of the meeting, its format, the call for participants and the management of the received content contributions, ensuring balanced participation of the global community.” There are “nine international members, including representatives of technical, civil and academic communities, the private sector and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations. The Organization of the event is completed by the “Logistics and Organizational Committee and the Council of Governmental Advisors.” Name them- each and every person- provide photos, bios and background checks. Provide all content contribution submissions the Meeting received- 188 contributions from 46 different countries. This will allow global legislators to see first hand for themselves data they need to read and review, in order to make responsible decisions for their Constituents rather than relying on abbreviated pitches and summations they received from interested parties with agendas. Respecting the “Multistakeholders” have on going meetings towards accomplishing their end goal, one would have thought, going slow with data release, would have been a no brainer. It took time to locate this answer. This meeting is a meeting organized in partnership between CGI.br, the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee and /1Net. /1Net is described as “a forum that gathers international entities of the various stakeholders involved with Internet governance.” Who is /1Net? Their website states, “/1net provides an inclusive and open platform to discuss Internet governance matters for all those interested (individuals, governments, civil society, academia, technicians, and business. (http://1net.org) The 1Net.org website says “For the last several years, the leadership of several recognized Internet organizations (ISOC, ICANN, IAB/IETF, IANA, the 5 Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), and W3C; sometimes referred to as the “Internet technical organizations”) have met periodically to promote better coordination between these groups.” /1Net’s website continues “While there have been brief statements issued… after the October 2013 meeting (known as the Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation) made some observations about the Internet which were fairly obvious but hadn’t been documented previously in a clear and consistent manner. High-level points from the Montevideo Statement include:

Milly Dowling’s mother had said in a television moment or told media her daughter was ironing her jeans before heading by herself, a fourteen year old, to a concert down in London by herself. I believe Millie’s mother let her take the train, I believe, to Londong by herself. A parent let a child, a 14 year old child, travel in that way, at that late hour by herself. That detail disappeared from the news. I did look for it to repeat itself. As did Reverend Al Sharpton’s moment blaming the Jews for the Howard Beach incident disappear from being repeated in the news, so did this. Media? Politicos? Or Policing. Pick one. Or pick them all.

I thought that detail of Millie ironing her jeans to then travel to London was important. I cross credentialed as a CCIA, MPI, profiler plus. I was active in building the first discrete site crime analysis lab on a college campus on the continent. I was relevant enough to head to the Marleybone constabulary with that detail, bringing along my certification and my Chief’s letter to validate my input in this disappearance.

I presented my credentials. I stated my point. The constable I was speaking with stood up, came, stood next to me, put his arm on mine, looked me in the eyes and said, chillingly “There are some details better left alone.” And then he repeated himself. There was nothing further I wanted the constable, the British version of a desk sergeant to say. I understood a veiled threat when I heard one. I left. And I hoped I would never run into that officer again.I never forgot those words. I also never forgot Millie’s website set up in her memory nor the lesson parents need to hear that sometimes are children are children. And sometimes the world is the world.

Lord Justice Leveson did not adress the Soham murders. Was it two years before the trial of the teacher and her boyfriend that the Daily Express offered a reward for details leading to the capture of the murderers and finding the girls. I had sent my notes in to the Express. I spoke to the then editor. Headlines tend to dominate decision making for papers as headlines tend to dominate for constables with chilling tones. The Evening Herald in Dublin ran my pieces. From Day 1, I had described a John Steinbeck scenario of Lenny in the Grapes of Wrath. One girl spooked. Killed while being muffled. The other. A witness. We know the end of the story, don’t we. So who is more at fault, the constabulary who did not want to adress a 14 year olds train ride to London I believe Millie took, or the media, who wanted sales generated by wild goose chases of sightings by cab drivers, mounds in fields and so on. Or parents partying without oversight to children. David Beckham was made the hero here when in fact it was the little girl wearing Beckham’s number which contributed to their deaths. Beckham’s 7 was the conversation opener between the murderer and the murdered.

Lord Justice Leveson focused on the young Millie Dowling but I did not hear mention of the security breach of the Buckingham Palace when two men calling themselves journalists bragged of having gone into the room that, I believe, Condaleeza Rice was to have slept in when visiting the Palace. That Lord Justice Leveson ignored the risk to security of our Queen is a fine example Lord Justice Leveson may have set out on his inquiry with an agenda or an answer in mind.

The reality is Media and Police need each other to survive. Through my efforts, and at personal cost, I was instrumental in fostering dialogue between the White House News Photographers Association and MPDC. This is not yo’ momma’s police as the urban expression is tweaked. Officers today have been raised in Social Networking. Citizens carry camera gear as sophisticated, and at times more sophisticated, that credentialed media out on jobs. Along with homemade press credentials technology allows to be looking better than real, the risk from terrorism, nutters is greater than ever before. Officers may stand down on issues due to concern of being sued for doing their jobs, ie partners who call the police then turn on the police when their lover is being arrested, or in this case, media photos being used or abused in issues involving police. Bottom line fact here, Lord Justice Leveson lost the opportunity to require Officers to meet with media to (a) understand how news gear can be used for terroristic purposes ie. Digital cameras when snapped without a card inside will show a photo leaving the cavity open for carrying (b) foster positive relations between Media and officers who may and do need each other in moments of concern ie. Identifying persons purporting to be media causing possible risk. Lord Justice Leveson must realize ethical officers and ethical media persons want to go home at the end of the day to their loved ones. Lord Justice Levesons direction should have been to build a simple, bullet pointed national common language handbook for media and officers to follow, similar to the National language handbook established by former Mounted Alan Hiscox recognizing that officers brought from across the UK where and when needed all had different signals which created chaos when brought to work together in the same event ie marches in London near Parliament.

This Inquiry was a teaching lesson and building point lost.

Who is to say the investigative work of the police was more valuable or less valuable than the investigative work done by the paper. It was what I read in the papers that allowed me to profile both murders, building piles of data and sorting through the piles for details. Millie’s case and the Soham’s girls situations are prime examples of bad policing where as Lord Justice Leveson words ring biased. Where police failed, Media mattered.

But Media died. Press is what one does to a doorbell. Levesons limited understanding of what ‘media’ is in an Internet age doomed his chairing the inquiry before it started http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk These days too many badges saying ‘press’ are home made at the local FEDX/Kinkos by wannabes wanting in on the Circus, people with opinions they express on the internet seeking their fifteen minutes of fame. Media, as it was once known, officially died in DC in the East Room of the White House the day President Obama signed the Health Care Act in to law. Media’s money shot was blocked by audience holding cell phones and cameras high in the air credentialed photographers could not shoot around. The President was using his bloated photographic staff to provide then distribute ‘behind the scenes’ photos over Flickr, Shutterfly, Instagram, Pinterest, youtube plus.

After several months of deliberating Media Gone Wild, Leveson provided a 2000 page report on his inquiry. Only ONE of out of over 2000 pages addressed Social Media, in a world gone lawless with the Internet outpacing legislators attempts to regulate online with measures to end lawless practices. Leveson erred when he wrote “the press on the other hand does claim to operate by and adhere to an ethical code of conduct” and “the Internet does not claim to operate by express ethical standards so. Bloggers and others may if they choose act with impunity.” Leveson failed to note Internet users and Print are equally bound by local and other laws- business, racist, hate speech, threats, fraud, and so on. The difference is, Bloggers and others cannot be found easily, if at all, while Print can.

Leveson failed to note everyone today is Media from the 5 year old girl taking video at a red carpet for Michael Moore’s movie, about big money in politics, to the stalking grandmother who spends her retired days going from one Think Tank event to another, camera in hand. Had I not been there to separate Dick Thornburgh from her, one can only imagine. The fear in his face. The lack of think tank security with on site staff not trained how to separate the former US Attorney General from a woman he did not want to offend lest that become a moment she posted to the Internet, picked up in the broken telephone then reported as ‘by media’ who are unfettered, untrained home grown “gotcha” people misrepresenting themselves as “MEDIA”. The Leveson Inquiry did not address them. Understandable, Leveson does not know Media died. Entertainment lives in print, online and on television.

The Internet is bloated with brain farts called Twitter, glutted with the obscenity of Reality TV starz with handheld PDAs, people with cameras turned stalkerazzi, feeding images to online Internet sites offering Photos of Stars to whoever will pay for pics of Famous people. These sites pop up overnight at little cost, tracking stars or politicos with GPS, interrupting stars in bathroom stalls, chase them into parking garages or in family moments. Actor Joey Pantalone complained he cant take his family to dinner in a public restaurant without being interrupted or followed or snapped with a spoon in his mouth. Andrew Dice Clay and Shia Le Beouf threw coffee at a paparazzi stalking them. Hayden Pantierre said she didn’t know how to ask the paparazzi stalking her to go away, fearing the paparazzi would sell a story on her not being nice.

Leveson said press “operates very differently from blogs on the Internet and other social media such as Twitter.” Leveson was correct. Land locked print entities are trackable at brick addresses while the Internet runs lawless with anonymous postings, untrackable site owners, no brick addresses, no phone numbers, no way to track entities invading privacies, participating in ID theft, IP theft. The Internet allows phantoms to disappear in a click of a DELETE button.

Lord Justice Leveson erred saying there is no longer a presumption of privacy. There is a presumption of privacy. There is a failure to define privacy boundaries from invasion by technology giants Google, Microsoft, Bing, and the consumer. It isn’t phone hacking that should be on trial. The individuals privacy is under attack by marketers bundled user data for targeted marketing. TV technology is being used to watch viewers for targeted marketing. A couple snuggling on their sofa will be sent lovey-dovey advertisements between shows.

Lord Justice Leveson saying Print Media has a grasp on Reader Consumption was wrong. New York State’s oldest newspaper the 214 year old Ballston Journal was closed down December 21st, with owner Angela McFarland citing “increasing production costs, shifts in readership and declining advertising revenue all played a part in her decision to convert to a digital-only format.” McFarland was transitioning the Journal from print to online. Costs for ink, paper and mailing were continuing to rise. McFarland was seeing businesses “relying on social media hoping that will get them through.” McFarland wasn’t seeing a lot of local advertising dollars being spent. Local officials, chambers of commerce and investors did not provide the $25-$50K she sought. McFarland said “online and social media traffic began to outpace print subscriptions… I think a smart media person learns to go adapt and go where the eyeballs are.” McFarland hired a consulting firm specializing in digital news to help her transition from print to paywall. Paywall means some content is only for people who pay for access to the content.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett owned World Media Enterprises closed the 143 year old Manassas News & Messenger and its website InsideNoVa.com covering news in Prince William County, Manassas and Manassas Park Sunday. All employees lost their jobs. Seventy two other jobs have been cut in the company. World Media Enterprises purchased the paper, as well as others, from Media General in June said the paper was losing money and “had a tough time finding the sense of community that a community newspaper needs to prosper.”

The Newspaper Association of America stats indicated the nine months prior to September 30th, “print advertising in the nation’s newspapers fell 7.7% while online ads grew by 2.5%.” Online ads are 15% of advertisers $16 billion spent towards reaching newspaper audiences. Digital revenue has a ways to go to make up for lost print sales. Fenimore Asset Management media research analyst Drew Wilson said newspapers appear to be losing out the most “in the reapportioning of the print pie.” Wilson predicts the way forward is more digital only publications and “definitely” less print publications. Publications continue to cut back print editions. Not even selling Newsweek for $1 could save America’s iconic publication. RIP December 31st, Newsweeks last print edition.

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, a project undertaken in conjunction with the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s News Coverage Index, conducts an ongoing content analysis of the news. 1000 adults over the age of 18 are interviewed by telephone.

The Pew Center study corrected Lord Justice Leveson’s misstatement. Leveson said, television continues to be cited most frequently as a main source for national and international news, at 70%.” “For young people, however, the internet now rivals television as a main source of national and international news. Nearly six-in-ten Americans younger than 30 (59%) say they get most of their national and international news online; an identical percentage cites television.” (http://www.people-press.org/2008/12/23/internet-overtakes-newspapers-as-news-outlet/)

A second Pew report showed news is going mobile seeking mobile platforms to stimulate revenue in local markets. 28% said losing their local paper would hurt their ability to keep up with information. 39% said the “loss of the newspaper would have no impact.” “Nearly half of all American adults (47%) report that they get at least some local news and information on their cellphone or tablet computer.

§ 35% of mobile local news consumers feel they can have a big impact on their community (vs. 27% of other adults) § 65% feel it is easier today than five years ago to keep up with information about their community (vs. 47% of non mobile connectors) § 51% use six or more different sources or platforms monthly to get local news and information (vs. 21%) § 75% use social network sites (vs. 42%) § 15% use Twitter (vs. 4%) (http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Local-mobile-news/Summary-of-findings.aspx)

Leveson was wrong stating (1) “although the press is not a person or a body corporate or incorporate, I shall adress notices under rule 13 of the 2006 rules to ‘the press’ as a class likely to be restricted to the national (as opposed to the regional) press but to encompass not only core participants but also other companies who operate titles that fall within this definition.” The media is made the wrong up. Leveson do.

Further more noting ‘most people will not assume that what they read on the Internet is trustworthy or that is carries any particular assurance or accuracy.’ Suggesting there is a ‘qualitative difference’ between seeing a picture posted online versus people seeing a photo on the front page of a newspaper is ignoring most people read news online. It is Online communication not a dying print industry that spreads words, truth or lie (twitter at less than 144 characters) faster than wildfire. This is a world where each countries search engines censor what the rest of the world sees. Malfeasance in the UK may not be seen by the rest of the world. Malfeasance spread to the rest of the world is blocked from the UK- a decision made by legislators and the megaliths Lord Justice Leveson chose not to address.

As a faith filled man, Lord Justice Leveson understands the comparison of the Internet’s scope of distribution being beyond imagination with the facility to spread embarrassment, shame and lies within the Internet vortex best likened to Sodom and Gemorah, a thousand voices speaking at once lightening fast rather than the slow speed of print- one purchased newspaper at a time.

Leveson forgot.

Media, print, online are descriptive words. People are what provide content. Leveson’s one and only conclusion should have been involved persons are the sacrificial lambs used for example just like the olden days of England where Justice took place in public squares in view of the masses. Times haven’t changed. Innovation has. The new public square is the Internet not print. People failed. Humanity disappointed. Not the print industry but people who think the internet is a forum to get away with breaches of decency and etiquette.

Lord Justice Leveson failed to acknowledge in his ONE sheet addressing Social Media that content providers to websites, blogs, have access to places real media cant go. Leveson failed to acknowledge Print Media now repeats its content online. Real media movement at events is restricted by their Press handlers who restrict access. That is exactly how Mitt Romneys campaign killing youtube moment was made. Media was not allowed in the room. Someone with an agenda and a Guest Ticket was in the room. This was the case with naked Prince Harry. Media didn’t take the photo. An attendee with a PDA knowing the value of the photo took the picture. I photographed the Prince at Cirencester polo. Credentialed media were told by the Duke not to photograph the boys departing in Wills car. Media respected the Duke. We turned our camera lens down.

Lord Justice Leveson holding what is left of the Print Industry to a higher standard is wrong. Leveson should have held society to the same standard, one of the Ten Commandments as an orthodox Jew he upholds, “RESPECT”. The words “Kabed et aveecha v’et amehcha”, “Honor thy Father and Mother” apply to how we treat our fellow man.

Lord Justice Leveson holding what is left of the Print Industry to a higher standard than online mega-entities “likely to have to operate under considerable new constraints but big online publishers such as Google, Facebook and Twitter are likely to remain unaffected” confirmed Leveson’s unsuitability to chair the Inquiry. Governments including the UK government are using technological giants to implement increasing invasion of privacies people once held even in their own homes. Twitter, Facebook, Google etc turn in private conversations to law enforcement. People are learning in real time, real life, litigation and in Technology industry disclosures that their online communication did not DELETE when the User clicked the DELETE button. It is those exact megalith “online publishers such as Google, Facebook and Twitter” who hold our lives, trade secrets, legal briefs, indiscretions that Lord Justice Leveson should have addressed not what is left of a once glorious profession- Print, moreso since the megaliths admit they are not exempt from hacking. Even Lord Justice Leveson and his family are at risk for public humiliation if groups like Anonymous or Julian Assange decide to expose what goes on beneath a Lords robes.

Lord Justice Leveson erred when said “social media and blogs are in an ethical vacuum beyond the remit of regulation.” Social media and blogs are IN the “remit of regulation.” Laws, legal books, judicial decisions fit this newest business medium. The comparative is simple-Apples to Apples. Online or offline a sale is sale, business is business, stalking is stalking, theft is theft, verbal abuse and bullying are verbal abuse and bullying, I can go on. Lord Justice Leveson should have said ‘don’t make new laws.’ Paraphrasing OJ’s council, “If the law fits, use it.”

The expression ‘America sneezes the UK catches the cold’ bodes here to. The virus is technological innovation outpacing legislative interpretation and implementation. Technology is mirroring peoples real time behaviours brought to the surface by the Internet giants. Courtesy of the internet, online stalking is the new way- using GPS tracking and Foursquare, disclosure of private information- banking details, addresses, unpublished numbers even private passwords to websites, advents like google maps showing a person at their home in great detail, poking, copyright and patent theft, IP and ID theft. Lord Justice Leveson’s failure doesn’t stop here. Lord Justice Levesons failure begins here. Lord Justice Leveson missed his chance to create the higher standard to rein in the global Internet as continues as it continues to morph.

A practicing Orthodox Jew, Leveson answers to a Higher Authority as Leveson rules from the Bench and his private life, guided by the Ten Commandments that list three THOU SHALTS and seven THOU SHALT NOTs- not steal, not murder, not lie, love thy neighbor, respect elders and be kind to fellow man. Lawmakers sitting in the Supreme Court Of The United States in Washington DC, a reminded their Court answers to an even Higher Authority by the ever present Decalogue held in Moses hands carved in to the right frieze above them. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said at a Holocaust Memorial held at Capitol Hill, her decision making is influenced by the Biblical phrase “Rodef Rodef Shalom,” “chase chase peace.” Leveson failed to pursue peace or Justice. Leveson failed to rule by the traditions of Orthodoxy before him as did the Deborahs, the Solomons before him are remembered, still, generations later.

Leveson forgot his ancestry. Media, print, online are descriptive words. People are what provide content. More than likely, Anonymous or Assange or their wannabees or other insidious people trained at proliferating hacking schools are going to dig deep the reveal Lord Justice Levesons online and offline life. They did it to the New York Times, publishing the papers staff’s personal information after the NYT published personal details on gun owners. The NYT set to publish more gun owner data. It isnt rocket science more NYT personal info will be released. Online.

RIP Media. The final nail is in Print’s coffin. Given a chance to do something amazing, Higher Authority Lord Justice Leveson failed.

[ Carrie Devorah is a former member of the NUJ, National Union of Journalists, is a member of the Senate Press Photographers and the White House News Photographers Associations in Washington DC. Devorah is a former religion editor well known for her works in faith. Devorah is an alumnus of Yeshiva University's Stern College For Women & Pratt Institute ]

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